Revenge of the Sith

If you ever get to be an evil galactic overlord, I've got a bit of advice for you: Don't gloat. If you have your opponent on the absolute ropes and all you have to do is to deliver the coup de grace - deliver it. Don't stop and talk to your apparently fallen foe. Kill him. Then if you feel like gloating, you can indulge yourself to the brim and you can speak as much of a monologue as you want over his dead corpse. If you do that your nemesis will not come back to save the day.

But does any super villain ever do that?

No.

Anyways, I just rented the DVD for Revenge of the Sith and there was a scene where the evil emperor to be Palpatine AKA Darth Sideous has Jedi master Yoda on the ground after shooting him full of blue lightning and instead of shooting Yoda full of more blue lightning and finishing him off, guess what he does? That's right. He gloats. And by gloating he paves the way for three more epic movies and two more trying to be epic, but instead being tedious movies.

What I want to know is this: Do you think most people in the galactic empire had it all that bad? I don't. I think in the Star Wars Universe most everyone on all the planets just lived their lives like normal and there wasn't a whole bunch of suffering. They could give a rip whether they lived under a galactic republic or a galactic empire as long as the crops came in on time and there was food on the table and they could slip out Saturday night to Mos Isley for a few belts.
The ones who were most inconvenienced were the rich lords and ladies with the titles and it doesn't look like they had their luxurious lifestyles impinged on too much, so what was the problem with having an evil emperor?

I've got another question: Doesn't anybody in that galaxy ever think about getting laid? In the first three movies there was plenty of indication that the inhabitants all had healthy sex drives. The three prequels make it look like they're all constipated and pre-occupied and got better things to do. Yeah, I know, Anakin, future Darth Vader is married, but it really looks like almost a pain in the ass thing for him and there doesn't seem to be a whole bunch of passion between them despite Natalie Portman's overacting.

At the end of the movie when Darth Vader becomes Darth Vader, you know, when they finally put the suit and the mask on Anakin Skywalker completing the transformation, I almost had to laugh. That's not Darth Vader! That's Darth Vader lite at best. Hayden Christiansen is just too short and skinny and you just wonder to yourself how he packed on all the muscles and extra height for episode IV. He must have gotten onto the roids big time.

Thank God George Lucas won't be making anymore Star Wars movies so that I can stop seeing them and being hugely disappointed. I just get the feeling that he's a real lonely bachelor who watches a lot of C-Span and thinks it's riveting. That's what all of these pre-quels felt like to me. Who cares about senate deliberations, even if they are galactic senate deliberations? It's still a huge yawn. And good old George can stop spending hundreds of millions of dollars in order to bore me stiff.